" Didn't hurt." Selena said with a blush as she reached for the door to the inner offices."Ummm, Selena can we talk a second." Deneigh said to beckon ...her back."Sure what's up?" Just a friendly observation from the video that got played ad infinitum on the TV last night; I've always thought you were quite beautiful, but you had to dress a little stiff to avoid coming off as a teenager." It's not a secret that I look like a high school kid, so I have to compensate." No, I know," Deneigh. By the way he describes the wiring, and the way he says he'd set up the bank of phones is exactly how I would go about it if I were doing that sort of hook up," he said, laughing right along with the others."Of course, if it were me, I would have had someone keeping an eye out for the cops while I was setting it up," he said, with a little sideway grin in my direction. "To say the least, that sort of thing is highly illegal."For the next half hour or so, we were entertained much better than if. "EXACTLY like that.' She wrapped her arms defensively around herself. "Not if you're angry withme." Blake regarded her coolly for a long while and then shrugged carelessly. "Whatever.I'm outta here then. For good." As if she didn't exist, he turned, making hisway to the open doorway that granted a jagged peaked view of the Andean cordillerasilhouetted in the encroaching darkness. Hope briefly wrestled with herself but knew from the start the battle hadalready been lost. She couldn't let him go. If she hadn’t gone back to her husband, I would have in a heartbeat, and hopefully brought her home with me. Damn husbands!The next several days were much easier to take. I knew I had something to look forward to in only a week. I wondered if it was more pictures of Michelle or something else I’d love. The house still felt lonely, but I had those pictures to look at wherever I went in the house. Of course, in a way, it didn’t help that I knew another man was now getting to see her the same way,.